discernment-nudge

An agent skill by anthropics, from anthropics/skills. Tags: anthropic, documents, office.

What it does

After you give a substantive answer or draft that the user may act on — advice or recommendations, drafted artifacts such as goals, plans, pitches, proposals, or emails, estimates or projections, analysis or interpretation of data, factual claims they may rely on, or a multi-step argument — invoke this skill BEFORE finalizing your reply and then, if it applies, append 2-3 short follow-up questions, each tied to something specific in what you just produced, that help the user check key facts, probe the reasoning or assumptions, and notice missing context. Do this at most once per conversation. Skip it when the user asked a trivial how-to or simple lookup, wants a purely educational explanation, asked you only to format, convert, or assemble a file from content they provided, is writing code they will run, is doing creative writing or casual chat, or already asked you to double-check, cite, or review — the skill file explains these boundaries and the exact output format.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill discernment-nudge

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills
cp -r skills/skills/discernment-nudge ~/.claude/skills/discernment-nudge

Safety box score

Not rated yet. A safety box score grades what a skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. Anyone can request one from this page; it is saved for everyone. How the score works.

Source

Repository

anthropics/skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/discernment-nudge/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

Related skills

• doc-coauthoring — Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation.
• docx — dotx files). dotx', or requests to produce professional documents with formatting like tables of contents, headings, page numbers, or letterheads.
• internal-comms — A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use. ).
• pdf — Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files.
• pptx — potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. potx), layouts, speaker notes, or comments.
• theme-factory — Toolkit for styling artifacts with a theme. These artifacts can be slides, docs, reportings, HTML landing pages, etc.